{"id":6992,"date":"2016-10-24T11:39:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T18:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6992"},"modified":"2018-03-06T20:34:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T04:34:47","slug":"b-c-hospices-say-theyve-been-told-to-offer-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6992","title":{"rendered":"B.C. hospices say they\u2019ve been told to offer euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lifesite News<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Steve Weatherbee<\/p>\n<p>BRITISH COLUMBIA, October 21, 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/\"> (LifeSiteNews)<\/a> \u2013 Two of British Columbia\u2019s five regional health authorities \u2014 one of them covering the \u201cBible Belt\u201d area of the lower Fraser River valley just east of Vancouver \u2014 apparently have told voluntary societies offering hospice and palliative care that they must provide euthanasia and assisted suicide.<\/p>\n<p>The Fraser Health Authority and its unnamed ally are not only flying in the face of \u2014 and against the philosophies and binding constitutions of most if not all the province\u2019s 73 voluntary hospice societies \u2014 they have done so without consulting the hospice societies in their own regions. Apparently they have also jumped the gun on the provincial Health Ministry, which is months away from finalizing its own policy. . . 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